Universities and Schooling in Medieval Society

William J. Courtenay, Ph.D. (1967), Harvard University, is C.H. Haskins Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published numerous books and articles on medieval intellectual life and universities, including Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England (Princeton, 1987) and Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century (Cambridge, 1999). Jürgen Miethke is Professor of Medieval History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

Introduction

Part One German Students and German Studies

Study Abroad: German Students at bologna, Paris, and oxford in the Fourteenth Century William J. Courtenay
On Recruitment in German Universities from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries Rainer C. Schwinges
University Scholars in German Cities during the Late Middle Ages: Employment, Recruitment, and Support Klaus Wriedt
Ritual and the Creation of Social Knowledge: The Opening Celebrations of Medeival German Universities Frank Rexroth


Part Two University Careers in Italy and France

Studia as Royal Offices: Mediterranean Universities of Medieval Europe Darleen Pryds
Learned Jurists and their Profit for society-Some Aspects of the Development of Legal Studies at Italian and German Universities in the Late Middle Ages Helmut G. Walther
Merit Ranking and Career Patterns: The Parisian Faculty of theology in the Late Middle Ages Thomas Sullivan, O.S.B.


Part Three PreUniversity Schooling and Schoolmasters

A Profession but not a Career? Schoolmasters and the Artes in Late Medieval Europe Martin Kintzinger
Education, Economy, and Clerical Mobility in Late EMdieval Northern England J. Hoeppner Moran Cruz


Part Four The Uses of University Learning and Writing

Practical Intentions of Scholasticism: The Exmaple of Political Theory Jurgen Miethke


List of Contributrs
Indices